Advanced Classical Music of the Modern Age Sheet Music

Three Sides for trumpet/flugelhorn, vibraphone, and piano was written in 2010 for Raymond Mase, a legendary New York trumpeter. The work is in three movements and is a blend of pointillism and lyricis...

Three Sides for trumpet/flugelhorn, vibraphone, and piano was written in 2010 for Raymond Mase, a legendary New York trumpeter. The work is in three movements and is a blend of pointillism and lyricis...

Just Keep Moving is part of the concept album *Chesapeake* (Summit Records DCD 639), performed by the American Brass Quintet with percussion and piano. This work is one movement within an integrated r...

Just Keep Moving is part of the concept album *Chesapeake* (Summit Records DCD 639), performed by the American Brass Quintet with percussion and piano. This work is one movement within an integrated r...

Manrique y la Luna is a fantasy for Violin, Cello and Guitar. It is inspired by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer’s "El rayo de Luna", a legend that tells the story of Manrique, a tormented man who falls in love...

There is a sense of unease in the imagined landscape of John Casken’s Misted Land, as familiar shapes take on a new and sometimes grotesque and frightening appearance. Fragments of folk-like melodies...

The inspiration behind Stolen Songs comes from the story of German violinist Alois Rosetz and his Latvian wife, Solomea Graudan - two artists whose lives and careers in Berlin were tragically erased....

The first movement of my Piano Quintet is filled with drama and passion. Its atmosphere can be related to my Second Symphony Johannes Angelos. The second movement is a set of polyphonic variations in...

Jörg Widmann's chamber music-filled work from 1999 was commissioned by the Siemens cultural program. As the title suggests, this early work refers to the famous poems of Goethe, but the vocal part is...

Even with its instrumentation which may seem unusual at first glance, the spirit and symphonic character of the pioneering work is preserved. Although the piece does not provide a direct opportunity f...

The concert piece Paganini Jazz by Faz?l Say, which was inspired by classical, modern and jazz styles, is reminiscent of the music of such greats as Scott Joplin, Art Tatum, Gershwin and Bernstein, an...

As most of my instrumental pieces, Joyce is also based on a literary source. My first string quartet (Korrespondenz) transferred the correspondence between Leopold and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, at time...

Nikolai Kapustin is considered a pioneer of the Soviet jazz scene. His music combines typical idioms of jazz with classical forms. The Trio op. 86 for flute, violoncello and piano from 1998 is one of...

The text for my work Taivaanvalot is composed of fragments of a story appearing in the Kalevala – a collection of Finnish heroic folk poetry compiled by Elias Lönnrot (1802–1884). As much of it is sim...

Nikolai Kapustins Divertissement op. 126 pour Violine, Violoncello et Clavier date de 2005. Cette œuvre très variée a été publiée pour la première fois dans une version notée.

The Divertissement op. 91 for 2 flutes, violoncello and piano was composed by Nikolai Kapustin in 1998. He recorded it himself with Alexander Korneev (flute), Marina Rubinstein (flute) and Alexander Z...

In his piano quintet, Hilli imagines an image of a palace. A jewel that shines brightly, a symbol of wealth and excellence. Celestial beauty that is captivating yet unattainable. A fine musical protra...

Wind Songs is a set of three songs for voice and viola which uses three Irish texts - one medieval, one traditional and one contemporary, to evoke three characteristic winds. The Wind Songs were writt...

According to the Holy Scriptures, Abraham had a son with Sara, Isaac, who became the progenitor of the Jewish tribes, and a son with Hagar, Ishmael, who became the progenitor of the Arab tribes. The F...